Introduction to Rulership and Dignities
"Rulership and dignities are various pairing associations traditionally drawn by astrologers between each particular luminary and planet, on the one hand, and each particular sign of the tropical zodiac, on the other.
Rulership as an association in astrology has two distinct applications. The first is simply a dignity: a measure (among others) of the enhanced 'worth' or 'strength' or harmony of the planet by its placement within a particular chart in the sign it is said in general to 'rule'. The second is more formally known as dispositorship, and helps to highlight effective connections between different parts of the same birth chart. This first part of the article will discuss rulership purely as one of the dignities.
A myth to dispel in introducing the topic of rulership is the popular misconception that the planets cause the characteristics of the signs of the zodiac over which they are said to 'rule'. Quite simply, they do not, and logically cannot! Every luminary and planet can be found in every sign at different times. The signs are areas of space marked out from a geocentric perspective around which each luminary and planet apparently moves, freely completing cyclical circuits of all twelve signs. So to suggest that any one of those celestial bodies causes the characteristics of any one of those signs in general is absurd."
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- Dignities and Debilities as Collected from a Variety of Sources -
"The following is an attempt to collect and organize scoring and weighting systems for both accidental and essential dignities from a variety of sources. While most authorities seem to agree concerning the essential dignities (namely, that planets in domicile get 5 points, in exaltation get 4, triplicity 3, bound or term 2, and face 1), there was a wide variety of systems for scoring the accidental dignities and debilities. What may surprise some readers is the complexity of these systems and detail into which they go.
- Perfect charts - planets in domicile -
"I’ve searched for Sun in Leo , Mercury in Virgo , Venus in Libra (only possible combination) and Mars in Aries. No result….I’ve switched Mars from Aries to Scorpion and surprise….a couple of days where displayed. Looking more closely I’ve found an exact date where all traditional planets where in Domicilie : Sun in Leo, Moon in Cancer, Mercury in Virgo, Venus in Libra , Mars in Scorpio, Jupiter in Pisces and Saturn in Aquarius."
- Nuances: more about the zodiac signs -
"These reprocess and filter planetary energy. The signs themselves reveal psychic patterns and life-potentials which, when functioning freely and openly, are all balanced and whole in themselves, and have their own ways of manifesting completeness and enlightenment. But they each have characteristic ways of becoming obstructed, corrupted, twisted and hampered as well – and these aspects of the human psyche, and of society and civilisation, we are all nowadays well accustomed to.












